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Any benefit from" same brand" amp/pre-amp??

Is there any benefit from the amp and pre-amp being the same brand??? I am consdering separates, and like the Quad 99 series pre-amp. It does have a matching power amp, model 909, but bass is limited because of the bandwidth limits of its class D design. I have read about and considered an amp called the Odyssey Stratos. It gets very good reviews, but I do not know if it would be compatible with the Quad pre-amp. Thanks
sunnyjim
unsound
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Sunnjim, perhaps it's something peculiar to that Quad amp. Most seem to feel that with the right speakers, that bass response is a strong suit of some Class D amps.
unsound
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Magfan, I very well could be missing something here, but why would one care much about what goes on at 30Khz?
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marakanetz
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Magfan made his point clear. Who cares even above 16kHz?
I use for 7 years Sunfire SRA class T amp which is an advance from class D technology with addition of sigma-delta signal encoding/decoding and found it superior to famous Wyred4Sound models.
unsound
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Perhaps that one went over my head, but I'm not sure Magfan was being sarcastic.
tmsorosk
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If you don't have the ability to try many combo's at home , a same brand match will work , most times .
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